So happy we have some hope in Ohio after all

[Norbert]

Friday Federal judges threw out Ohio's Congressional Map because of Partisan Gerrymandering.

Exhibit A has to be OH-01 in the SW corner of Ohio. As you can see it has been hideously gerrymandered. The way it was drawn up in 2000-2009 OH-01 would have been very winable. When they redrew it in 2010 they included Republican rich Warren County since the GOP didn't need that to win OH-08. Just for good measure they took much of the Dem Stronghold of the East Side of Hamilton County and placed it in OH-02 there the Dems have never won. The result, OH-01 is nearly impossible to win. We ran popular Aftab Pureval in 2016. Outside of having an issue with one of his campaign staff he ran a strong campaign but Chabot ended winning handily over Pureval.

Unless there was a major demographic change or a court ruling, Chabot pretty much has a lifetime job in OH-01. We now have that lower court ruling. This will probably end up in the SCOTUS but there is still a ray of hope in the darkness.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/court-declares-ohio-congressional-map-unconstitutional-partisan-gerrymander-n1001841

[watoos]

1. Good luck Ohio,

I wish you the best.

Here in central Pa. I have been asking for a paper receipt for 20 years it seems every time I vote, I never get one.

We are scheduled to get new voting machines, money has been appropriated, our Democratic governor Wolf is pushing to have them installed before the 2020 elections. Are these machines any better because they have a paper trail, who knows for sure since voting machines are never pulled out and independently audited.

Well now maybe we won't get new machines by 2020 since our Republican Senate just voted to delay installing the machines.

Republicans have learned how to win elections even if they fuck over their constituents; gerrymander, suppress Democratic voter turnout, purge Democrats from voter rolls, rig voting machines, flat out commit election fraud.

[lark]

2. SCOTUS is our enemy, so near term prognosis for fixing this is almost nil.

4 of the 9 are Russian Repugs and the 5th, the Chief Justice is olgicarch central. In this case he'd almost certainly side with his regular crew, as he did last year on a gerrymandering case.

[FakeNoose]

3. This is awesome news! Congratulations Ohio Democrats

Make the Repukes own up to all their underhanded cheating. All they want to do is damage democracy and the fair elections process. Never turn your back on the Repukes either. You can bet they're already figuring out a new and different way to cheat.